Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi: Is Midrange AORUS Right For Your Next Build?

Here we will run some targeted benchmark tests to gauge the raw performance/calculation speed of the CPUs.

SuperPi

SuperPi is a very popular program for testing single threaded performance by calculating digits of Pi. You run it by setting the length of the test and the score is time-based at the end. Performance is judged by how quickly it can complete the task you assign.

The Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi did very well here right in line and even besting the MSI board.

WPrime

WPrime is very similar to SuperPi but is a multithreaded program which you can assign the number of threads that work on the problem and you get a time-based result on how long it took for the CPU to crunch through the task you assign.

WPrime sees the Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi get the best of the show here in the long test due to its disregard of ICCmax rules. this means that the CPU stays at 4.7GHz even under extended load instead of dropping once the turbo budget should be exhausted.

This does mean that you could see slightly higher temps on long heavy runs such as video transcodes so keep that in mind when selecting your CPU cooling solution.

Review Overview

Gigabytes midrange take on Z390 is here! Today we have for you the Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi. Gigabyte has long made motherboards for consumers and also pushed the limits for the overclocking/XOC community with a staff of well adept overclockers at their disposal. Gigabyte has made arguably some of the most top-tier boards in both the mainstream and HEDT platforms of varying success and design over the years. Gigabyte has really stepped up their game on the recent chipset generation from what I've seen with some very overbuilt power circuits but carrying with that note some questionable product positioning…

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi: Is Midrange AORUS Right For Your Next Build?

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi: Is Midrange AORUS Right For Your Next Build?

2018-11-19

Shannon Robb

Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro WiFi

Value - 9.8

Performance - 9.5

Innovation - 9

Quality - 9

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9.3

Gigabyte comes into the sub $200 realm with guns blazing. Massive performance with a VRM to push it if you have the cooling to do so.